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| Comments on Monday 2 March 2009: |
| Games! If you have fond memories of Elite, play it again only not quite as good, with Oolite. And then you'll remember how tedious Elite often was. Or play Elite crossed with Asteroids and Nethack that is much better, with Transcendence. Or play one even Nethackier, with ascii graphics and Nethack-like ground battles but real-time ascii space battles, with Privateer: Ascii Sector. A curious thing, that games such as these and Spelunky and Nethack, and most roguelikes for that matter, whose play-lifespan is indefinitely long, tend to be free, while games which entertain you for about 12 hours and then are finished tend to cost 40+ currency units. Perhaps there is a division by zero error in figuring out the pricetag of an indefinite-length game. [08:58] |